Herentals

Herentals
	Herentals
	Herentals
State :	Belgium
Region :	Flanders
Province :	Antwerp
District :	Turnhout
Coordinates :	51 ° 11 ′ N , 4 ° 50 ′ E Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ N , 4 ° 50 ′ E
Area :	48.56 km²
Residents:	28,177 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density:	580 inhabitants per km²
Height:	15 m
Post Code:	2200
Prefix:	014
Mayor:	Jan Peeters ( sp.a )
; Local government address :	Augustijnenlaan 30 ; 2200 Herentals
Website:	www.herentals.be

Herentals is a Belgian city in the Flanders region on the banks of the Albert Canal with 28,177 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019). It consists of the main town and the districts Morkhoven and Noorderwijk .

Turnhout is 18 kilometers to the northeast, Antwerp 30 kilometers to the west and Brussels about 48 kilometers to the southwest.

traffic

Herentals has three motorway exits on the A13 / E 313 . The municipality has a regional train station on the Antwerp - Lier - Herentals - Mol - Hasselt / Weert ( Netherlands ) (→ Iron Rhine ) railway .

The Brussels-Zaventem airport (42 km southwest) Belgium's largest airport and the Antwerp Airport is the nearest regional airport .

Gewandhaus and Belfry

Attractions

The town hall was built as a Lakenhalle ( Gewandhaus ) around 1400. Part of this building is the belfry from 1590 with a carillon , which is part of the UNESCO World Heritage “Belfries in Belgium and France”.
The beguinage with a late Gothic church (around 1600), a gatehouse from 1622 and houses from the 17th century was founded in 1266 and housed around 300 beguines in the 15th century. It was badly damaged in the iconoclasm in the 16th century , but was later rebuilt.